As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation is focused on the myriad of factors which make our city unique and successful. With an emphasis on strengthening this region's competitiveness in the global economy, the Foundation works with many partners to publish cutting edge research, hold public forums, and convene task forces of experts and stakeholders to create action agendas for real change.
A new report highlights issues with the state's emergency rental program, known as RAFT, and puts forth ten policy recommendations to make the system easier to navigate, and more effective for families and individuals in need of emergency housing.
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A new report from the Boston Opportunity Agenda, the Birth to Eight Collaborative and the city's Office of Early Childhood finds significant differences in access to early education and care between Boston neighborhoods, and a continuing need for more seats for infants and toddlers citywide.
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Knox arrives at TBF with over two decades of experience with Boston-area nonprofits, most recently as Executive Director of Root, the Salem, Mass.-based nonprofit that trains young people for jobs in the culinary sector.
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A new report from Boston Indicators, in partnership with Embrace Boston, highlighting the changing demographics of Greater Boston's Black communities, and the rapid growth of the region's foreign-born Black and Afro-Latino populations.
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In a new report, the Boston Globe reports that housing advocates are urging lawmakers to set aside $250 million to support the Residential Assistance for Families in Transition program, better known as RAFT, to meet the demand of vulnerable renters amidst the housing crisis.
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WBUR outlines a new report by TBF, MAPC, the United Way of MA and CHAPA, 'Building a Better RAFT: Improving Access to Emergency Rental Assistance in Massachusetts,' sharing the successes of the program during the pandemic and the report's recommendations that could make resources easier to access and more available to families in need.
Read MoreThe Boston Globe's Jon Chesto profiles Orlando Watkins, spotlighting his leadership with TBF's Business Equity Fund providing low-cost loans or stock investments in Black- and Latino-owned businesses in the region in an effort to bridge the region’s racial wealth gaps.
Read MoreWBUR highlights findings from the Boston Opportunity Agenda and the Birth to Eight Collaborative in a new report, '(Re)Building Boston's Early Education and Care Sector: Supply, Affordability and Quality Needed.' With a lingering early educator shortage, MA's child care industry is still struggling to recover from COVID-19, and parents and caregivers continue to face challenges to find quality, affordable childcare.
Read MoreA new report from TBF, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Metropolitan Area Planning Council and CHAPA finds opportunities to strengthen and expand the state's emergency rental assistance programs.
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The latest update to the Boston Opportunity Agenda's study of supply and demand for early education and care in Boston finds pandemic-related investments helped avert a crists, but a continuing shortage of places for children in infant and toddler classrooms.
Read MoreWritten by Luc Schuster and Peter Ciurczak of Boston Indicators with James Jennings, Ph.D., in partnership with Embrace Boston, this report explores the changes in demographics of Greater Boston's Black communities - and a population that today is among the most diverse Black populations in the country.
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This update of the college enrollment and completion trends for Boston Public Schools graduates finds the pandemic accelerated a decrease in postsecondary enrollment among students, while completion rates held at the same level of prior years.
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The spring issue of TBF News features a conversation with former Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy on the ongoing battle to close the gender wealth gap. Plus, there's a new leader for the Latino Equity Fund, and Boston Indicators explores the complex makeup of Greater Boston's growing Black population.
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